The Miscarriage Chronicles: The Loss Of Blood (part 1)
I grew up in the 1980s before AIDS was called HIV. My closest friends and I were trained to be deathly afraid of unprotected sex. At worst, you would get AIDS and die. And best, you got pregnant and there went your career dreams. Or so we believed as we sat around the pharmacy section reading the labels on the condoms so we could buy a three-pack and each of us could carry one in our wallets. We had no person or plan, but this made us “90s women.” So I never had unprotected you-could-get-pregnant-from-doing-this sex until I was interested...
read moreI’m Back and Writing About Loss
If you’ve been following my blog, you’ve noticed that I’ve been really quiet lately. Like all summer lately. What’s up with that? Well, part of the challenge of writing about depression is that it’s hard to write when depressed, and, well, depression happens. But I’m back – well, back to Beautiful Mind Blog – and I thought I’d shake things up a bit. I actually have been writing this summer, even if not on Beautiful Mind Blog. So I’ll post some of the online articles and blogs I have been writing. I’m changing the...
read moreMonica A. Coleman featured in Huffington Post
In many ways, I do think that there is a greater stigma among African American culture than among white cultures. There is still an active mythos of “the strong black woman,” who is supposed to be strong and present and capable for everyone in her family — and neglects her own needs. I am just now learning that vulnerability is strength. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
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“You have to believe in it. It won’t work if you don’t have some faith that it will work.” These are the words my friend said to me years ago when I realized I could no longer manage my depressive condition without medication. Friend to friend, depressive to depressive, minister to minister . . . he told me to have faith. I knew how to have faith in God. We prayed and preached about that for a living. I was not used to having faith in a pill. I’m the kind of person who has to have a raging headache for at least 6 hours before...
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The headline in the electronic newsletter came was written in large font: “She’s one of us.” My favorite magazine that offers hope and harmony to people living with bipolar depressions, bphope, called attention to the recent disclosure that actress Catherine Zeta-Jones lives with bipolar depression. By the time I received the newsletter, I had already read a couple articles about Zeta-Jones from my twitterfeed, the Huffington Post and on the cover of magazines in the grocery store checkout. Even though I live in Los Angeles, where...
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